From: "Liam Connell" <liam.connell-AT-britishlibrary.net> Subject: Re: colonialism as penetration Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:51:07 -0000 I have a vague recollection that an essay by Louis Montrose in Greenblatt ed. _New World Encounters_ discusses early modern personifications of the Americas as a female native: although I don't recall whether discovery/conquest is phrased in terms of penetration. It is certainly commonplace for descriptions of first landings to personify the landscape and to employ a language of penetration as a metaphor of navigation right the way up into the C19th. An example I am familiar with is RLS' description of his arrival in the Pacific islands, where 'the cliff yawned, but now with a deeper entry; and the _Casco_ [his ship], hauling her wind, began to slide into the bay....' Whatever confusion of gender may be apparent here, this could be easily accommodated within a repetitive metaphor of the penetrative act. I suspect that Stanley would bear examination. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark LeVine <mark.levine-AT-iue.it> To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 3:22 PM Subject: colonialism as penetration > does anyone know of any studies or theories that investigate the notion of > colonialism and contemporary neo-liberal 'americanization' as an act of > 'penetration'? > > thanks! > mark levine > > > > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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